Police: Suspect dead, officer wounded in Baltimore shootout

24/9/2018 18:12

        A suspect died and an officer was wounded in a shootout Sunday evening in a violence-prone Baltimore district where a "crime suppression initiative" was taking place, Baltimore's interim police chief said.
        
        Interim Police Chief Gary Tuggle said at a late-night news conference that the gunfire erupted just before 6:30 p.m. in a west Baltimore neighborhood. He said the male officer, a police veteran, was being treated at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and that the injuries did not appear life-threatening.
        
        He did not release the name of the man who they said shot the officer before being killed.
        
        No one else was hurt, Tuggle told reporters near the scene in the Poppleton neighborhood. The immediate area place was quickly cordoned off by investigators as an "active crime scene," and only local residents could get in. Bright lights were brought in on towers to illuminate the scene as officers investigated into the night.